Jahvid Best’s season is over

The Lions announced Friday that Best is headed to injured reserve. Best played six games this year before suffering a serious concussion.

For a second straight season, Best struggled with injury. He played through a painful turf toe injury for much of last year.

And for the second time in his football life going back to his college days, Best’s season has been cut short by a serious concussion. Best’s post-concussion symptoms were slow to go away. We can only hope the issue doesn’t cut short Best’s career.

Kevin Smith’s high ankle sprain on Thursday likely forced the Lions to make this move.

Detroit needs to add another running back until Smith is healthy. It’s telling that they expect Smith to come back and contribute, while they are comfortable ending Best’s season now despite his talents.

25 responses to “Jahvid Best’s season is over”

Here’s hoping jahvid gets better and is smart and thinks about himself before football when next season comes along. He would be a nice change of pace back with leshoure taking the load of carries behind a revamped offensive line. I never thought he was a full-time back at his size.

A shame. They should just cut him after the season. Our offense looked so much better with a running game. Smith is not the long term answer and Leshoure is an unknown to me too. We need a durable running back who has vision and speed.

I like Kevin Smith much better between the tackles than Best.
Best is probably top-end faster in open space, but Smith is making it happen inside.
Because of Best’s multiple concussions, I would mimic how New Orleans treated Reggie Bush -> open space offense only.

I think that may be it for Best. If he has suffered two such serious concussions…it is time to go. It is not worth the risk anymore. Too bad however. If he and Lenshure had been healthy the Lions would have been fabulous this year. I am wondering who is left to bring in.

Knowing he had a history of concussion problems, it probably wasn’t in his best interests to openly bash how he hates the Niners and he was a raider fan, a week before having to run into Navarro Bowman and Patrick Willis.

All kidding aside, I hope he regains his health and becomes a great change of pace back ala Darren Sproles.

R.I.P. to Detroit’s season. Not that Best’s placement on IR really changes things since he’s been out for weeks, but the whole combination of injuries, penalties, interceptions, and overall bad play have taken a 5-0 team to the brink of elimination from playoff contention. Bunch of pretenders they turned out to be.